This is 'BATTLE OF THE BANDS' ('BOTB') where you listen to different recordings of the same song and vote for the one you like best. A new Battle gets posted on the 1st and 15th of each month and six days later, on the 7th and 21st, I place my own vote, tally 'em all up and announce the winner.

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Friend? Foe? Stranger? No matter, ALL are welcome. So pull up a chair, pour yourself 24 oz. of DOG BITE High Gravity Lager (or the poison of your choice) and turn it up to Eleven!

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[NOTE: Links to the first year of 'BOTB' (#1 - #24) can be found at the very bottom of this page.]

'ICANDREAM, CAN'TI?' And below is what Wackypedia has to say
about it:

"I Can
Dream, Can't I?" is a popular song written by Sammy Fain
with lyrics by Irving Kahal. The song was published in 1938, included
in a flop musical, 'Right This Way'. Tommy Dorsey released a
hit recording of it the same year, but it was in the postwar years
that the song gained its greatest success.

The best-known
version was recorded by The Andrews Sisters and Gordon Jenkins'
Orchestra on July 15, 1949, and released by Decca Records … It
first reached the Billboard charts on September 16, 1949, reaching
number one on all three of the magazine's main pop charts at the time
(Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played by Jockeys, and Most Played in
Jukeboxes).

So, obviously we are
going to start with the famous Andrews Sisters version.

My
Spidey-Sense told me this wasn't going to be much of a competition
(possibly a total wipe-out), so I decided to go looking for a good
third optional alternate. What I found was the Jerry Vale version.
I'd certainly heard of Jerry Vale, although I don't know if I'd ever
heard him. Well, this guy could damn-sure sing, that's for damn sure!
So if you would like to hear the song performed by a male voice, you
can click the URL link provided below and give Jerry a shot. The
Andrews Sisters, Karen Carpenter, and Jerry Vale - all are available
for your voting pleasure.[Nope! Looks like Jerry Vale's version has already been deleted by YouTube. Guess it's between The Andrews Sisters and Karen Carpenter only.]

Alright
now, “you know the gig”... I welcome EVERYONE
to vote for their favorite of these songs in the comment section
below. And feel free to tell us WHY
you chose one song over the other. (NOTE:
Comment
Moderation is activated.
All submitted comments that do not transgress "Ye Olde Comment
Policy" will be posted as soon as possible. Thanks for taking
the time to comment.)

After
voting here, I
suggest - actually I insist - you pop over to the blogs of the other
'BATTLE OF THE BANDS' participants to see which songs they have
chosen and vote there also.
(If their ‘BOTB’ blog bits aren’t posted yet, pour yourself two
shots of ‘Grand Marnier’ over ice – do it twice
– and then return to their blogsto
vice
your voice
...vote
your vice
...voice your vote.)

As
I've done in the past, I will continue to return to my 'BOTB' blog
bits on the 7th and 21st of each month to post my own votes and
announce the winners in the comment sections.

~
Stephen T. McCarthy

YE
OLDE COMMENT POLICY: All comments, pro and con, are welcome. However,
ad hominem attacks and disrespectful epithets will not be tolerated
(read: "posted"). After all, this isn’tAmazon.com,
so
I don’t have to put up with that kind of bovine excrement.

Shooby-duh-Dooby-Doop-Dooby-Dooby-Doo-Wah
– Buh-Doo-Wah!.Yes,
it’s time once again for ‘Battle Of The Bands’ (‘BOTB’).Welcome
to my new home designed specifically for all future 'BOTB' blog bits.

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EUGENE MARTONE VS. JACK BUTLER

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Alright,
let’s get on it....On
March 3, 1985, a new television series debuted. It was a private
detective show like none before it and none that came after.
'MOONLIGHTING' introduced Bruce Willis to
TV audiences as it followed the exploits and tracked the sexual
tension of former 'Blue Moon Shampoo' model Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) and
smart-assed, wisecracking Los Angeles private detective David Addison
(Willis). The show was incredibly clever, creative, and innovative;
it frequently mixed fantasy with realism, broke “the fourth wall”,
and had the show's characters directly address the TV viewers. Car
chases? Fuhgeddaboudit! Those were so 1970s! The pilot episode had
the first ever elevator chase (filmed at the Bonaventure Hotel in
downtown L.A.) and a later episode included a wheelchair chase in a
hospital. This was definitely not your grandpa's detective show..Some
of the episode titles in just the first two seasons alone hint at the
the off-the-charts creativity of 'MOONLIGHTING': “Gunfight At The
So-So Corral”; “Read The Mind – See The Movie”; “Brother,
Can You Spare A Blonde?”; “The Dream Sequence Always Rings
Twice”; “Atlas Belched”; “Twas The Episode Before Christmas”;
“Every Daughter's Father Is A Virgin”; “Sleep Talkin' Guy”..

My
Ma got hooked on 'MOONLIGHTING' immediately and sometime during the
first season she urged me to watch an episode of it with her; she was
sure I'd like it even though I've never been much of a television
junkie..So,
finally, one night I watched a one-hour episode with her. Me: “Eh.
It was OK.” Ma convinced me to watch it again the next week.
Me: “OK. Not bad. But I don't get your
fascination with it.” I watched a third episode. Me: “We
gotta wait awholeweek
before the next
episode? Damn it!”
Yeah, once I figured out the dynamic of Maddie and David's
relationship and got into the groove of how they delivered their
lines, all the banter and the recurring inside jokes, I was hooked
like Richard Pryor on crack cocaine! I now consider 'MOONLIGHTING' to
be my fourth favorite TV series of all time..The
show's popularity began to wane as it ran over-budget and failed to
complete filming on schedule, resulting in no new episodes when there
should have been, and forcing the secondary characters to carry
entire episodes from time to time. The really fatal flaw, however,
was when the writers mangled the story and wrecked the sexual tension
between Maddie and David. There were still some great episodes (and a
“bad” 'MOONLIGHTING' episode is still better than the best
episodes of most other TV shows), but the end was near..A
lot of 'MOONLIGHTING' fans hated the final episode, but I think it
was the perfect ending to the show. Sad as hell, but a perfect finale
that included so many of the classic gags the show became famous for.
In fact, I think it may have been the best final episode of ANY
TV series ever!.I
was on vacation in Kentucky with my parents when that last episode
aired on May 14, 1989. I remember watching it on a motel television
set and my Ma weeping at the end. Only the official “Man Card” in
my wallet prevented me from crying right
alongside her. (The “Anselmo Case” - a long-running inside joke
on the show – was never solved, we were informed at the very end.
Ha!). Why
have I told you all this, and what does it have to do with 'Battle Of
The Bands'? The last few minutes of the last 'MOONLIGHTING' episode
featured the Jazz standard 'WE'LLBETOGETHERAGAIN', which only made those last few minutes seem even
sadder because we 'Moonlighting' fans knew that... they wouldn't..Frank
Sinatra recorded the song in 1956 with backing by the Nelson Riddle
Orchestra. It was one of the last songs I played for my Ma in her
hospice room the day before she passed away. The song is on a CD she
gave me for Christmas in 2003..

'MOONLIGHTING'
was the best of Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd – I loved them
together. It's like 'THE THIN MAN' series with Myrna Loy and William
Powell... two people with the right chemistry which made both of them
better together than either one was on their own. If you're
interested, below is the Charles/Carter version of 'WE'LL BE TOGETHER
AGAIN' as it was incorporated into the last 3 minutes of the last
'Moonlighting' episode:

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'MOONLIGHTING'
– Season 5Final
Scene From Final Episode, 'LUNAR ECLIPSE'

.Alright
now, “you know the gig”... I welcome EVERYONE
to vote for their favorite of these songs in the comment section
below. And feel free to tell us WHY
you chose one song over the other. (NOTE:
Comment
Moderation is activated.
All submitted comments that do not transgress "Ye Olde Comment
Policy" will be posted as soon as possible. Thanks for taking
the time to comment.).

After
voting here, I
suggest - actually I insist - you pop over to the blogs of the other
'BATTLE OF THE BANDS' participants to see which songs they have
chosen and vote there also.
(If their ‘BOTB’ blog bits aren’t posted yet, pour yourself two
shots of ‘Grand Marnier’ over ice – do it twice
– and then return to their blogsto
vice
your voice
...vote
your vice
...voice your vote.).VoiceYourVote
@ ‘FARAWAYSERIES’
by clicking HERE.VoiceYourVote
@ ‘TOSSINGITOUT’
by clicking HERE.VoiceYourVote
@ ‘YOURDAILYDOSE’
by clicking HERE.VoiceYourVote
@ ‘DISCCONNECTED’
by clicking HERE.VoiceYourVote
@ 'AWRITER'SLIFEINPROGRESS'
by clicking HERE.VoiceYourVote @ ‘CREATIVEOUTLETOFSTRATPLAYER’
by clicking HERE.

As
I've done in the past, I will continue to return to my 'BOTB' blog
bits on the 7th and 21st of each month to post my own votes and
announce the winners in the comment sections..~
Stephen T. McCarthy.YE
OLDE COMMENT POLICY: All comments, pro and con, are welcome. However,
ad hominem attacks and disrespectful epithets will not be tolerated
(read: "posted"). After all, this isn’tAmazon.com,
so
I don’t have to put up with that kind of bovine excrement.

Liberty

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